By skyforbes Maybe this is a hot take, but a pet peeve of mine is when people refer to roguelike games as roguelite. It makes no sense why it would be referred to as “lite”. All games in this genre harken back to the game Rogue; therefore, any game with similarities (permadeath, upgrades, trying to get to the final boss from scratch each time you play) is roguelike.
FWIW Sakurai agrees, as mentioned in a recent Kirby Air Riders direct.
Edit: a typo